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Upper Playground x Digital Gravel Obama Shirts

I’ve been covering all of the awesome Upper Playground x Barack Obama prints, which each retailed for $200 and sold out faster than Joe Lieberman. Well get ready to wear your politics and drop a zero off the pricetag, because if you missed out on the prints, they’re back as shirts. Upper Playground and Digital [...]

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Urban Art for Obama

If you were to go back in time (even just a few years) and ask yourself to imagine urban and street artists so passionately applying themselves to a US presidential campaign, could you? In less than a week, corresponding with the Democratic National Convention, Denver, Colorado’s Andenken Gallery will host Manifest Hope, a unique event [...]

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Obama x Grotesk x Upper Playground: Sold Out!

Dang, I got swamped and snoozed on reporting this by a couple days and it’s already gone. The latest Barack Obama art print for Upper Playground by Swiss graphic artist and current Brooklyn resident Grotesk has sold out. In the last decade Grotesk has developed a passion for folk art, street photography, hand-painted signs, vintage [...]

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